Quotes About Oppression

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.

Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

There are many evils in this country. The only remedy for every one of them is freedom for the nation.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom...never .

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.